'Boys Don't Cry'.
VENICE, Italy -- Adapting a chilling story explored in a feature-length documentary and a John Gregory Dunne New Yorker article, Kimberly Peirce's debut film "Boys Don't Cry" never sensationalizes material that could easily be rendered strange or perverse. Working with a strong cast and gifted collaborators, Peirce transcends the story's tabloid nature to investigate frilly its emotional, sexual and class underpinnings.
Premiering in the Venice Film Festival's Cinema of the Present sidebar, preceding festival showings in Toronto and New York, Fox Searchlight's well-acted, exceedingly well-made film should strike a chord among young filmgoers eager to search out substantial, difficult works. …
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